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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Shannon Place (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Shannon Place. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Name Variations for Shannon Place ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Shannon Place: Shannon Pl. (or less commonly used: Shannon Plc.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Shannon Place is located in Trinity County.

To see how the shape of California's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Trinity County: Humboldt, Mendocino, Shasta, Siskiyou & Tehama.

Below are the counties that are near Shannon Place. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Shannon Place:

  • Trinity County     (The home county of Shannon Place)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Shannon Place, with the one closest to Shannon Place listed first.
    • Zenia
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Ruth
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • McClellan Place
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • McClellan Place is located in Trinity County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McClellan Place
    • Peanut
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Peanut is located in Trinity County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peanut
    • Wildwood
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Hayfork
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Humboldt County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Shannon Place, with the one closest to Shannon Place listed first.
    • Alderpoint
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Fort Seward
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Fort Seward is located in Humboldt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Seward
    • Blocksburg
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Harris
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Harris is located in Humboldt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris
    • Phillipsville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Garberville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Cooks Valley
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Cooks Valley is located in Humboldt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooks Valley
    • Redway
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Miranda
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Dinsmore
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Dinsmore is located in Humboldt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dinsmore
    • Fruitland
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Fruitland is located in Humboldt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruitland
    • Briceland
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Briceland is located in Humboldt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briceland
  • Mendocino County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Shannon Place, with the one closest to Shannon Place listed first.
    • Bell Springs ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Bell Springs is located in Mendocino County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell Springs
    • Spyrock
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Spyrock is located in Mendocino County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spyrock
    • Covelo
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Piercy
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Bowman Place
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Bowman Place is located in Mendocino County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowman Place
    • Leggett
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • South Leggett
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • South Leggett is located in Mendocino County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Leggett
    • Dos Rios
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Shasta County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Shannon Place, with the one closest to Shannon Place listed first.
    • Knob
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Knob is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knob
      • Knob has also been known as:
      • Knob Gulch
    • Platina
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Beegum
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Beegum is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beegum

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Shannon Place, see our County-by-County Page for Shannon Place.

Cemeteries Near Shannon Place ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Shannon Place.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Shannon Place - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Shannon Place covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Shannon Place, with the one closest to Shannon Place listed first.

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>

While we didn't find Shannon Place in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Shannon Place.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Shannon Place, with the one closest to Shannon Place listed first.

  • Harris
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Harris is located in Humboldt County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris
  • Blocksburg
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Phillipsville
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • Wildwood
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
  • Garberville
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
  • Covelo
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Cummings
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Cummings is located in Mendocino County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cummings
  • Fruitland
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Fruitland is located in Humboldt County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruitland
  • Briceland
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Briceland is located in Humboldt County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briceland
  • Hayfork
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Shannon Place. See our List of 1890's Communities around Shannon Place.

Newspapers Published in Shannon Place ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 13 newspapers that have been published in the area around Shannon Place.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Shannon Place, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Shannon Place.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Shannon Place:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<3>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Shannon Place, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Shannon Place) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.